Your Blogging Staff

Contributing to this blog:
- "Dave" is Dave Barry, who is a humor columnist and presidential contender.
- "judi" is Judi Smith, who is Dave's Research Department, as well as being interested in men.
- "Walter" is Walter, a bone from the penis of a walrus.

August 03, 2007

THE JUGGERNAUT IS ROLLING

I was in downtown Ketchum, Idaho, and I spotted a car with a familiar bumper sticker:

The car's owner, shown below, is Kevin Wade. He will definitely be in my cabinet if I am elected, which appears increasingly likely based on the fact that I did not see a single bumper sticker in Ketchum for any of my opponents.

You guys need to stop ragging on Fords. I would never purposely by a Ford automatic after that one, but that was still a hell of a transmission. I had it rebuilt in 1984 at 240,000 miles and you could still burn rubber in second gear when that photo was taken in 2006 (at almost 860,000). She's 30 years old this month.

I have friends with Ford work trucks that just won't have the current automatics, and I am with them. My F-350 with an automatic could pass a gas station before it could pass a transmission shop. My acquaintances with big Fords (250s and above) like their manual transmissions.

CJ - it's just me picking on Fords. My ex had one that died in the fast lane....twice. With my little boys on board. The dealership guy told me that the 'dying' was a 'safety feature.' I wanted to take a safety feature to his cranium. So you may love your Fords - I will not. :)

Just an unusual dichotomy, Annie. Old Ford automatics in cars, before the mid 70s, were pretty amazing. I'm not aware they were ever good in trucks. All of the Big Three made decent manual transmissions for trucks, but I have never had one. The last several years I have been driving an old Nissan 5-speed truck, but I think it's our best truck. The rest are all junk.

Mid-level people are all driving Colorados (Chevy trucks), but they should come with volleyball nets, to capture parts falling off. Honest truth, folks looking for a good, reliable, little truck; find yourself a mid-mileage Nissan Frontier. As tough as my truck is, it is about to give out (Oh jeez, a Colorado), but that was 247,000 tough miles. That truck has been through hell. My company will retire it very soon, but it's never even had the clutch replaced, in almost 10 years. It has never even had brake pads, in 10 years, 247,000 miles. I tuned it up at 140,000 (plugs, wires), just out of principle... it wasn't missing. What a ridiculously economical vehicle, yet still that vehicle that makes 'friends' invite you over for moving parties.

If I wasn't hauling a horse trailer, I'd take a Frontier into the woods.

Agreed Chevys fall apart, and midget Nissans never die. But I got to watch my horses jackknife nearly over a cliff because a plastic tranny piece in a new Ford 250 broke off. Another friend had the brakes on her new Ford truck lock up towing horses on an LA freeway. So unless you're a mechanic who feels the need to tinker at inopportune times...

So my brother was in town... duh... talking to someone at a local theater, when he walked out to discover a strange man taking pictures of his car. This, of course, was Mr. Barry.

The rest is as it looks- my brother went giddy, and then got his picture taken with Dave. He then immediately called me to let know... and lo' and behold it's now on his blog, and my brother's a rock star... or a blog star... one of the two.

Yeah, well show me an automatic that can tow, longer than the commercial. I don't even believe the Toyota or Nissan tow claims. I knew immediately when I snapped my 150's transmission, after which I was driving a Taurus with a Reese hitch.

Tibbles, congratulations for your brother. Blog is so self-effacing and off to the side if he can be, that struck me as unusual.

That's like how I have a Rudy sticker on my car, and swear to dog, the other day, my doorbell rings and this guy hands me a pamphlet and he looks really familiar, and then I realize he's a Jehovah's Witness so I tell him to fcuk off and slam the door on him.

My gosh, I had no idea what a voice Christina Aguillera had. I was listening to an amazing vocalist that kept getting crushed by the pianist on a new CD. It was she and Herbie Hancock. Very surprising, but what I should expect from WMNF.

Excellent choice of presidential candidate..... more than makes up for his choice of the Ford "Exploder".... The 1997 version I had came with a defective timing chain tensioner design (causing loss of oil pump)... defective blend door design ( something that should last the life of the vehicle... defective seat reclining mechanism design... ( to their credit.. they figured out how to fix that after a couple of years...this sort of thing should last a life time also)....and I almost forgot... the Firestone tires...

No wonder Ford is losing market share like John McCain ( Good luck Dave!!!!)

.. and the transmission failed at 135k miles...worst performance of any vehicle I've owned....now have a Chevy (like about 9 out of 10 Hopis appeared to have on Second Mesa in 1998... my first clue I really screwed up on my choice of vehicle in 1997)